Deploying to Netlify with WP Static Site Generator

Manual deploy with the free version

set your Base URL to the final domain your users will visit your webite on

optionally set any other configuration options for the crawling, processing or deployment phases

generate your static site and download your resulting ZIP file

drag and drop your ZIP file into the Netlify UI to deploy

For easier deployments via the ZIP (or even the “Test deploy” method), consider setting up a Git repository on GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket or any others supported by Netlify. Then when you push changes to the repo, Netify will automatically build it for you!

If it’s your first time deploying to Netlify, you can just take your ZIP file and drag it onto the UI at Netlify to create your Netlify site, then configure any settings within Netlify. This will work best if you’ve chosen to export with relative links set, so that the site’s URLs will work wherever deployed.

Netlify configuration options explained

Base URL

Set this to the final domain your users will visit your site on. If you’re just getting started you can set it to your Netlify site’s URL, ie https://mystaticsite.netlify.com

This will be what’s shown in a few places within the Netlify UI for your site, as shown here:

Did you know, you don’t need to save any of your credentials within the plugin if you are exporting via the UI (vs CRON/CLI). Just enter your credentials on the settings page and hit Start static site export. If you navigate away from the page, your credentials will not persist. You can also hit the Reset to default settings button to clear any settings you’ve saved for the plugin from your WordPress database.